[ [Footnote 4: ] [ There ] was a special order in the first year of Edward VI. that instead of this censing a sermon should be preached.]

[ [Footnote 5: ] [ It ] stood where the Peel statue now is, at the top of Cheapside.]


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[ [Footnote 1: ] The Grey Friars Monastery was on the site of Christ's Hospital, this year removed. The Chronicler was one of the expelled monks, and, naturally enough, was shocked at the whole business.]

[ [Footnote 2: ] [ Robert ] Machyn was an upholsterer of Queenhithe, whose business, however, was chiefly in the way of funerals. He kept a diary, which is much used by Strype in his Annals, but has been reprinted in full by the Camden Society. It is very amusing, very illiterate, and full of gossip. He was a hot partisan of the Roman faith, and so never loses the opportunity of a fling at the Reformers. He died of the plague in 1563.]

[ [Footnote 3: ] [ Milman]'s Annals of St. Paul's, pp. 280-1.]


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